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Mayday 2002 Planning Meeting

Sunday November 25th
2pm
Fieldgate Action Resource Centre

(On the corner of Fieldgate St and Parfett St, London E2. Nearest tube, Algate East or Aldgate)

Despite previous years of police-pen madness, chaos, and quashed dreams, a group of crazy people want have a go at Mayday again!! Anything can happen and it usually does, and the purpose of this meeting is to bandy around new ideas, move on from mistakes made in the past, talk about how we want to celebrate OUR day, get different non-activist people involved and actually enjoy ourselves! And have an ace indoor picnic at the same time. This will be as un-arduous and convoluted a meeting as can possibly be, there is a strong emphasis on making this whole process fun and empowering, something that our friends in blue and hacks in macs have tried to suck out of us.  There are already some ideas flying about which were discussed at the Anarchist Bookfair, October. These are:

- Gameball (radical multi-sided game of street football)
- Festival of Alternatives (A week of skills sharing workshops, guerilla art exhibitions and film makings/showings, chow-downs, street parties and general DIY co-operative ace-ness)
- Mass Picnic (a hooge merry family-friendly nosh up in a public park/place, with lots of food sharing)
- Week of community based action (lots of decentralised, local, ingenious actions meant to arouse, empower and forge lasting networks for grass roots social change)

So bring your ideas, food to share, your mates and an open mind and let's be 'avin it!

Note: We are a non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian collective and we want to co-operate with people who share our methods of working. That means no political parties or authoritarian (Trotskyist etc) groups. Everyone's welcome, but remember, this is not speakers corner and we won't ever have some kind of party line, steering committee or polit bureau, so we don't appreciate anyone trying to foist one on us.

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